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Well finally, I got my 6 miler in today. Weather was perfect, 84 degrees and little or no wind. Sun, Sun, and more Sun. When I originally mapped this route, it was 6 miles, but, I'm thinking that I may need to re-map the distance to confirm what I ran. It's at least 5.9 or 6 miles. It was a great run and when I finished, I was not tired or ruined from the run. I was sweating from head to toe. One thing that I noticed was that improvement in performance is happening!

Wow!!! What a run and in the sun too! Near 80 degrees and perfect weather. I took it easy today and did a recovery run with a time of 22:36 for 2 miles. I did lower than normal cruising speed in the flat areas of the route. I wasn't out for any records today, just to enjoy the run and the sun. I kept the speed off on purpose today aside from the fact of what type of run I was doing. I just wanted to enjoy the run. The run consisted of a hill at the very beginning of the course, followed by about 1/4 to 1/2 a mile of a flat road. Then an up hill incline to a bridge followed by a down hill to my turn around and then back the same way except for the end, I went up one street more and then intersected where I started from.

News that marathon runners and other endurance athletes may be at increased risk of skin cancer shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Mainstream media focused on the idea that it was increased exposure to the sun that was to blame, and almost universally carried warnings for runners to slap on the sunblock. In doing so they completely missed the point – which is that training and racing suppresses the immune system.

It’s the immune system that controls cancer, not how much sunlight you are exposed to. Distance runners are more likely to develop cancer because they artificially – and chronically -- suppress their immune systems. To add insult to injury, most runners are not nutritionally protected, or at best only partially protected, against the overt stress of protracted exercise.